Module Specification · 2015. 8. 3. · narrative structure, narration, editing, mise-en-scene and visual style; 2.Apply the principles of textual analysis both to complete films

Module Specification

No. Assessment Description Weight % Exam Hours Ass't Group Alt Reass't

003 Essay 1 50004 Essay 2 50

Period: Semester 1Occurence: ECoordinator: James ChapmanMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit

Academic Year: 2013/4Module Level: Year 1Scheme: UGDepartment: History of Art and FilmCredits: 20

Intended Learning OutcomesAt the end of this module, typical students should be able to: 1.Analyse the formal properties of a narrative film, including itsnarrative structure, narration, editing, mise-en-scene and visual style; 2.Apply the principles of textual analysis both tocomplete films and to segments of films; and 3.Demonstrate their competence in textual analysis in both oral and writtenforms.

Teaching and Learning MethodsThe module will be taught by a combination of lectures, film screenings, seminars and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay 1, 1500-2000 words, 50%. Coursework essay 2, 1500-2000 words, 50%.

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Excluded Combinations-

Lectures 10Seminars 10

Practical Classes & WorkshopsTutorials

FieldworkProject Supervision

Guided Independent Study 110Demonstration

Supervised time in studio/workshop 20Work Based Learning

PlacementYear Abroad

Total Module Hours 150

Student Workload (hours)

HA1007 Reading Film

Last Published: 3 August 2015



003 Coursework Essay 50004 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 50 2

Period: Semester 2Occurence: ECoordinator: Simon RichardsMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this first year module students should be able to -a) Identify varying different methodological approaches - such as connoisseurship, archival analysis, historicism, iconography,and scientific study - to the discipline of Art History.b) Analyse the application of these different methodologies in a variety of case studies.c) Demonstrate their competence in deploying these methodological principles in written essays and examination.

Teaching and Learning Methods20 lectures, 5 seminars and Guided independent study.

Assessment Methods50% coursework essay, 1500-2000 words; 2 hour examination.

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Supervised time in studio/workshopWork Based Learning




HA1111 The Theory and Practice of Art History





Period: Semester 1Occurence: ECoordinator: Thomas FrangenbergMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this first year module students should be able to:a) Identify the braod outlines of formal developments of style in painting, sculpture and architecture from Classical Antiquity toc.1600.b) Discriminate between works of art on the basis on internal evidence for their date and authorship.c) Recognise and correctly assign works of art and architecture to their correct chronological period, comparing them to, andcontrasting them with, other works.d) Demonstrate this competence, by assigning appropriate reasons for their judgements in written and oral work.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, Seminars, Field Work, Guided Independent Study.

Assessment Methods50% exam, 50% the better of 2 x 1500 word essays.

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Fieldwork 10Project Supervision






HA1112 Introduction to the History of Art I







Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this first year module students should be able to:a) Identify the broad outlines of formal developments in painting, sculpture and architecture from c.1600 to the present day,recognising some of the fundamental reasons for breaks with past practices.b) Discriminate between works of art on the basis of internal evidence for their date and authorship.c) Recognise and correctly assign works of art and architecture to their correct chronological period, comparing andcontrasting them to others.d) Demonstrate this competence, by assigning appropriate reasons, in written work.

Teaching and Learning Methods20 Lectures, 5 Seminars, 10 Field Work, 115 Guided independent Study, Total 150.

Assessment Methods50% exam, 50% the better of 2 x 1500 word essays.

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HA1113 Introduction to the History of Art II




004 Seminar Log 30005 Essay (2000-2500 words) 35006 Essay (2000-2500 words) (Final) 35 2

Period: Semester 2Occurence: ECoordinator: Guy BarefootMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this first year module students should be able to:a) Differentiate between and analyse Realist schools of filmmaking in N. America, Europe and non-western cinema.b) Distinguish between and analyse different modes of documentary filmmaking.c) Make use of appropriate critical frameworks in the analysis of individual films, situating them in their historical, geographicaland cultural contexts.d) Demonstrate their ability to reflect on their viewing, reading and seminar contribution in the form of a seminar log.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, screenings, seminars, guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay (2000-2500 words) 35%; 2 hour examination 35%, seminar log 30%.

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HA1114 Realism and the Cinema




006 Exhibition Review 50007 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 50 2

Period: Semester 1Occurence: ECoordinator: David EkserdjianMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this first year module students should be able to:a) Identify and distinguish between different kinds of critical texts on works of art, ranging from monographs to dictionaryentries.b) Critically analyse different examples of the same genre of writing.c) Apply these skills to writing their own texts about images, demonstrating that they can produce their own examples ofdifferent genres.

Teaching and Learning MethodsSeminars and self-directed study.

Assessment MethodsExhibition Review and a two-hour examination at the end of the semester.

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LecturesSeminars 20








HA1120 Words and Pictures




009 500 Word Review (qualifying element) 15010 3 Separate Reviews (qualifying element) 25011 900 Word Film Review (qualifying element) 30012 900 Word Review Assignment (qualifying element) (Final) 30

Period: Semester 1Occurence: ECoordinator:Mark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Identify the practical elements of writng about film and what is expected by editors in terms of readership, house style,grammar, form and content, as well as working to specific deadlines.b) Apply this knowledge in written assignments, producing a portfolio of work that can be shown to prospective employers.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, seminars, film screenings and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsFilm reviews.

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LecturesSeminars 20








HA2015 Film Journalism




001 Essay (qualifying element) 50 0002 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 50 2



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Identify and describe key works of art from the period, assigning them to their approximate date of production.b) Recognise that major works of art produced in the late middle ages were produced for specific commissions and describethe relationship between artists and patrons.c) Distinguish those works that were produced directly for the market place and evaluate how the market functioned.d) Evaluate the different roles that patrons played in commissioning selected case studies, in written assignments.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, seminars and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsEssay 50%; Exam 50%.

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HA2021 Art and Patronage in Late Medieval England c.1300-1500







Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Recognise and explain the geographical and cultural biases of western evaluations of cinematic production.b) Discuss and evaluate the cinematic output of other regions of the world.c) Critically assess such output within five different themes: cinema and nation; form and aesthetics; politics and cinema; newwaves, new cinemas; popular genres, popular pleasures.d) Identify and discuss in written assessments some of the key discourses pertaining to world cinema.

Teaching and Learning Methods10 Lectures, 10 Seminars, 20 Other (Film Screening), 110 Guided independent study. Total 150.

Assessment Methods50% exam, 50% essay.

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HA2030 Researching World Cinema




003 Coursework essay 50004 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 50 2



003 Coursework essay 100

Period: Semester 2Occurence: E1Coordinator: Thomas FrangenbergMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Identify the key developments in central and north Italian painting, sculpture and architecture between 1500 and 1700.b) Differentiate between the work of different artists and identify their contributions to specific works.c) Describe and interpret the iconography of selected works in written and oral assignments.d) Identify the role of patrons in commissioning works of art and architecture.e) Discuss and evaluate selected works of art criticism and theory.

Teaching and Learning MethodsSeminars and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay, 2000-2500 words. Examination, 2 hours

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HA2210 Italian Art & Architecture 1500-1700







Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Recognise and correctly sequence the rapid changes in European Art between 1890 and the Second World War.b) Identify and assign works to different artistic movements such as the Nabis, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Contructivism,Data and Surrealism.c) Locate these movements in their appropriate geographical, political, social and temporal contexts.d) Recognise and critically evaluate individual works in written assignments.

Teaching and Learning Methods10 Lectures, 10 Seminars, 130 Guided independent study. Total 150.


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HA2217 European Art, 1890-1940




004 Document Exercise 1 30005 Document Exercise 2 30006 Exam (Final) 40 2



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Distinguish between various kinds of primary and secondary sources on art.b) Identify the specific genre, such as contracts, biographies, journals or letters, to which a text belongs.c) Critically assess the information value of such sources in written assessments.

Teaching and Learning MethodsSeminars, Guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsDocument Exercise 1 30%; Document Exercise 2 30%; Exam 40%.

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LecturesSeminars 20








HA2219 Documents of the History of Art




005 Short Essay (1500-2000 words) (qualifying element) 30006 Long Essay (2500-3000 words) (qualifying element) 70



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:A. Distinguish the characteristics of a range of American films and other forms of visual culture.B. Assess the significance of films and other visual media within their American cultural context.C. Assess the roles of the institutions of American cinema and television in the production and consumption screened media.D. Use appropriate critical frameworks in the analysis of this material in written assignments.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, screenings, seminars, and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsEssays, one 1500-2000 words (30%), the other 3500-4000 words (70%).

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HA2224 American Film and Visual Culture




003 Element 1 (2-5 minute video drama) (qualifying element) 50004 Element 2 (2000-word production assignment) (qualifying element)

(Final)50



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Work as a member of a team, producing a 2-5 minute piece of video drama.b) Film and edit a short video drama using modern digital video equipment independently and as part of a team.c) Adapt or write de novo a script for the video.d) Critically analyse in written form the techniques employed in making the video and its intended effect.

Teaching and Learning MethodsStudents will be divided into groups of 4 to 6. Each team will work towards the independent creation of a 2-5 minute piece ofvideo drama, filmed and edited using modern digital video equipment. The main taught part of the module will consist of 6 x 3hour lecture/workshops followed by a three-week gap for filming and editing and a final screening session in week 10 of thesemester. The final Video Drama piece will be awarded a group mark based on its successful exploitation of techniquestaught in the module. Individual assessment will be by means of a 2000-word Production Assignment (describing thetechniques employed in making the video and its intended effect).

Assessment Methods50% - 2-5 minute video drama scene(s). 50% - 2000-word Production Assignment. Group presentation compulsory but notgraded.

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LecturesSeminars

Practical Classes & Workshops 21Tutorials







HA2429 Film Production




003 Essay 50004 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 50 2



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this second year module students should be able to:a) Identify and critically appraise the work of a selection of directors working in British cinema 1930-70, such as AlexanderKorda, Alfred Hitchcock, John Boulting, David Lean and the partership of Powell and Pressburger.b) Identify and discuss the main developments in British cinema between 1930 and 1970.c) Identify themes associated with films of the period such as national identity, gender, propaganda, law and order, and ColdWar politics.d) Critically assess different genres including the historical film, spy film, crime film, comedy film, social problems film and warfilm, situating them in their appropriate historical context.e) Demonstrate this understanding in a written coursework assessment and an examination.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, seminars, screenings, presentations.

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay - 2000-2500 words, 50%2 hour examination at the end of the semester, 50%

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HA2440 Introduction to British Cinema, 1930-1970




004 Coursework Essay 50005 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 35 2006 (Joint) Presentation (qualifying element) 15



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Identify the core themes of nineteenth and twentieth century art theories.b) Explain and assess their origins in the aesthetics of classical antiquity.c) Analyse a selection of art theories in oral and written presentations.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, seminars, presentations and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay, 2500 words; Examination, 2 hours; (joint) Presentation, 15 minutes.

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HA3020 Classical Aesthetics and its Legacy




004 Extract Analysis 1500 (qualifying element) 35005 Essay 3500 words (qualifying element) (Final) 65



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Assess the history and current status of women as filmmakers and film stars, from the 1910s to the present, in the Britishand US film industries as well as international cinema movements such as the French New Wave.b) Employ and evaluate theories of representation and spectatorship in the analysis of a range of films from the work of earlypioneers such as Alice Guy to contemporary directors such as Kathryn Bigelow, and from the melodramas and 'women'spictures' of the 1940s to those featuring action heroines past and present.c)Assess the importance of the economics and organisation of cinema as a global industry for women behind and in front ofthe camera.d) Demonstrate this understanding and these skills in a sequence analysis and an essay.

Teaching and Learning MethodsThe teaching for this module will be through lectures, screenings and semianrs. Each week, there will be a formal, structuredlecture followed by a screening. Seminars will offer the opportunity to further discuss the screening, concepts and theoriesgiven in the lecture.

Assessment Methods2 essays: short essay (1500 words, 30%) and long essay (3500 words, 70%).

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LecturesSeminars 10








HA3030 Women in Cinema




001 Coursework Essay| 3000 words (qualifying element) 50 0002 Examination (qualifying element) (Final) 50 3



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Identify the key themes in Portrait Painting in England in the Sixteenth Century such as: the portrait as text; the propagandaof royal imagery; the intimacy of miniatures and the symbolism of Elizabethan portraiture.b) Appraise the effects of the Reformation on religious painting in England.c) Discss the patronage and ownership of paintings.d) Interpret primary sources.e) Contextualise developments in portraiture within the wider socio-economic, religious and political backgrounds.f) Demonstrate their competence in a coursework essay and written examination.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, seminars, presentations, guided independent study

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay - 3000 words, 50%3 hour examination at the end of the semester, 50%

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LecturesSeminars



Guided Independent StudyDemonstration



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HA3031 Holbein to Hilliard: Painting in England in the Sixteenth Century




003 Coursework Essay 50004 Examination 3 Hours (qualifying element) (Final) 50 3



003 Coursework Essay 50004 Examination 3 Hours (qualifying element) (Final) 50 3



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Analyse art produced in Britain from the 1960s to the present day.b) Identify and discuss developments in Conceptual Art in this period.c) Contextualise these developments in terms of the contemporary art market and the theoretical and aesthetic contexts.d) Extrapolate from personal study of Conceptual Art works and competently discuss them in written assessments.

Teaching and Learning Methods30 Seminars, 10 Field Work, 110 Guided independent Study. Total 150.


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LecturesSeminars 30








HA3424 Conceptual Art and its Aftermath in Britain




003 Essay 2500-3000 words (qualifying element) 50004 Exam (qualifying element) (Final) 50 3

Period: Semester 2Occurence: ECoordinator: Phillip LindleyMark Scheme: UG Pass for Credit


Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Identify different categories of figure-sculpture from the period.b) Differentiate and classify chronologically the key works produced in the period.c) Identify and describe the different functions of imagery before and after the Reformation.d) Explain the hostility to sculptured imagery evinced by many Reformers.

Teaching and Learning MethodsSeminars 10 x 3 hours; Field Work 6 hours. Summarise a key text in oral and written form (this does not count towards theassessment of the module).

Assessment MethodsAssessed essay, 2500-3000 words. 3 hour examination at the end of the semester.

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LecturesSeminars






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HA3426 British Gothic Sculpture




003 Essay 2500-3000 words (qualifying element) 50004 Exam (Final) 50 3



003 Essay 2500-3000 words (qualifying element) 50004 Exam (Final) 50 3



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HA3430 #MULTIVALUE




003 Case Study 50004 Coursework Essay 50



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Apply the skills they have developed in film analysis and cinema history research to low-budget filmmaking.b) Distinguish the characteristics of the American B-film, the British 'quota quickie' and the film serial and discuss theirindustrial, formal and stylistic significance.c) Demonstrate this competence in an essay and a case study on an individual film.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures, tutor and student presentations, screenings, seminars, and self-directed study.

Assessment MethodsCase study of a film: 2500 words plus annotated bibliography (50%); 3000 word essay (50%)

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LecturesSeminars 10








HA3463 B-Films and Serials




003 Essay (3000 words) 50004 Exam (Final) 50 3



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module studens should be able to:a) Identify and discuss ways in which the Gothic has existed as a form of fiction evident in different media including cinemaand television.b) Employ appropriate critical skills in the analysis of Gothic texts on film and television.c) Assess the historical and cultural significance of 'screen Gothic'.d) Demonstrate this competence in an essay and written examination.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures and introductions to key issues will precede weekly screenings. Weekly seminars will provide forum for discussingscreened material and selected critical texts. They will include non-assessed group presentations. Students will alsoundertake independent research.

Assessment Methods3000 word essay (50%), 3-hour examination (50%).

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HA3464 Screen Gothic







Intended Learning Outcomes

Teaching and Learning Methods2 hour seminar per week.

Assessment Methods2500-3000 word essay (50%), 3 hour examination (50%).

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HA3475 British Popular Culture Since 1945







Intended Learning OutcomesThis module will consider the history of science fiction in the cinema from the 1920s to the present. It will examine thenarrative and thematic concerns of science fiction (SF) and the formal and aesthetic strategies of the genre. It will considerthe relationships between SF cinema and literature through adaptations of works by authors including H.G. Wells, JohnWyndham, Robert A. Henlein and Michael Crichton. And it will locate SF films in their historical contexts of production andreception. The module may include films such as the following from a range of national cinemas, including Britain, Germanyand the Soviet Union in addition to Hollywood, and films by major directors such as Fritz Lang, Andrei Tarvokskii, RidleyScott, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. Amongst the films we will study are The Metropolis (1926), Things to Come(1936), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955), The Time Machine (1960), Solaris (1972), Blade Runner (1982), TheTerminator (1984), Jurassic Park (1993) and Starship Troopers (1997).

Teaching and Learning Methods2 hour weekly seminar

Assessment MethodsCoursework essay, 2500-3000 words 3 hour examination

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HA3480 Science Fiction Cinema




003 Coursework 50004 Examination (Final) 50 3



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Identify the connections between British Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s and its political, social, economic and culturalcontext.b) Evaluate a range of different genres such as heritage film, social realist film, political drama, literary adaptation andcomedy.c) Assess how British cinema was informed by and responded to changes in the period.d) Demonstrate this competence in an essay and written examination.

Teaching and Learning MethodsScreenings, tutorials and guided independent study.

Assessment MethodsCoursework Essay 50%; Exam 50%.

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LecturesSeminars 10








HA3482 British Cinema and Society in the 1980s and 1990s




001 Coursework essay 50002 Examination (Final) 50 3



Intended Learning OutcomesBy the end of this final year module students should be able to:a) Scrutinise and discuss the ways in which Italian renaissance artists employed drawings in a variety of media to make theirpaintings.b) Discuss an individual case study, locating it in its larger artistic, cultural and historical context.c) Evaluate and combine textual and visual evidence.d) Demonstrate this competence in an essay an written examination.

Teaching and Learning Methods10 x 2 seminars.130 hours of guided independent study

Assessment MethodsStudents will write a 2500 word essay and sit a 1 x 3 hour examination.

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LecturesSeminars 20








HA3484 From Drawing to Painting in the Italian Renaissance
